Past and Present Sugar Crops In Louisiana.

A recent letter from Ascension Parish, La., in speaking of this season's sugar crop on some of the plantations, as compared with the production in former years, says: "Gaudin's place, one of the best kept-up plantations in the parish, will turn out some 120 hogsheads, formerly 300, Melancon's old time crops. Then came Landry Degas' place, no hogsheads, of old 300; Ventress', no hogsheads, of old, 400; Hatkinson's none. View Full Article in Timesmachine »

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